The Bears Heart, Fil Reid
The Bears Heart, Fil Reid
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The Bear's Heart

Author: Fil Reid

Narrator: Helen Langford

Unabridged: 10 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/13/2022


Synopsis

Gwen, a Dark Age queen from the twenty-first century, is cursed with the knowledge of a future she dreads.

In a time of murky history and confusing legends, Gwen, a girl from the twenty-first century who fell back in time to become King Arthur's Queen Guinevere, has no idea which of the tales told by her late father, a fanatical Arthurian scholar, are true. Her worst fear is that history is fixed, and she might be merely treading a path long laid down for her, that she can do nothing to alter.

Every decision she makes could lead her closer to the doom that hangs over the people she's come to love—Camlann. The battle in which Arthur, the man she's given up everything for, is destined to die by the hand of his wicked nephew, Medraut.

Will her questions be answered as she marches north with her husband to battle the invading Saxons? Will she even survive?

Contains mature themes.

About Fil Reid

Fil Reid lives on a wide beam canal boat on the Kennet and Avon Canal in Southern England. She has a long-suffering husband, a rescue dog from Romania called Bella, a cat she found as a kitten abandoned in a gorse bush, five children, and six grandchildren. She has Asperger's Syndrome and her obsessions include horses and King Arthur. Her historical romantic fiction and children's fantasy adventures center around Arthurian legends, and her pony stories about her other love. She speaks fluent French after living there for ten years, and in her spare time looks after her allotment, makes clothes and dolls for her granddaughters, embroiders, and knits. In between visiting the settings for her books.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emilia on June 04, 2022

Review Disclaimer: I received a prerelease copy of the book. This review honestly expresses my thoughts after having read it. This is Fil's second book in the Guinevere series which follows a librarian who gets sucked through a magical portal to the time of Arthur and Merlin. Now Guinevere has to fac......more

Goodreads review by Chris on March 15, 2022

The second book of the Guinevere series. I always regard series with a degree of suspicion, not least concerning the transition from one book to another. It far too common that a new reader entering part way down the chain is left lost and bewildered. I am happy to say that this author handles the p......more

Goodreads review by Quincy on March 17, 2022

I received a pre-release copy of the book. This review honestly expresses my thoughts after having read it. Gwen’s exciting saga continues as she chooses King Arthur and late fifth century Britain over a return to the comfort and safety of our twenty-first century. She is in love, they are in love, a......more

Goodreads review by Rick on March 16, 2022

The Bear’s Heart is a strong follow-up to Fil Reid’s tale of the modern Guinevere who is transported back in history to wed the legendary King Arthur. The “bear” of the title is Arthur, and the story fits the name: Gwen and Arthur’s relationship is front and center in this sequel to The Dragon Ring.......more

Goodreads review by Kim on March 18, 2022

Guinevere #2: the Bear’s Heart by Fil Reid The second volume of the time-travel historical romance, depicting King Arthur as a dark-ages chieftain. In fact this novel concentrates more on the historical background and Gwen’s adventures, with detailed descriptions of the Dark Ages settings and the peop......more